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- Title
Neighbor Hob and neighbor Lob: English dialect speakers on the Tudor stage.
- Authors
Simon-Jones, Lindsey Marie
- Abstract
Drawing on scholars like Paula Blank, Janette Dillon and Tim Machan, this article argues that, in the Tudor university and court plays of Shakespeare's youth, the stigmatization of non-standard, dialect speakers demonstrates a cultural renegotiation of the contemporary linguistic climate. By defining the English language and the English people not against a foreign Other, but rather against the domestic, servile, and dialect-speaking Other, sixteenth-century playwrights demonstrated the threat of non-standard speaking and advocated the standardization of language through education while effecting cultural change through negative reinforcement. Keywords: Tudor drama; interludes; history of English language; dialect; university grammarians
- Subjects
ENGLISH dialect literature; DRAMATIC productions of Shakespeare's plays; ENGLISH language education; SOCIAL change; BLANK, Paula; DILLON, Janette; MACHAN, Tim
- Publication
English Text Construction, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
1874-8767
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/etc.6.1.03sim